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Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery
Episode number: 1
Crash of the Century
Episode number: 2
Overview: March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.
Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive
Episode number: 3
Overview: This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549
Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown
Episode number: 4
Overview: This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters
Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude
Episode number: 5
Overview: This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.
Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots
Episode number: 6
Overview: This special looked at how pilots safely land their aircraft in emergency situations.
Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot
Episode number: 7
Overview: This special looked at how automation in the cockpit causes deadly misunderstandings.
Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence
Episode number: 8
Overview: This special looked at terrorist acts, including bombings and shootdowns.
Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit?
Episode number: 9
Overview: This special looked at pilots' carefully planned strategies in deliberately crashing aircraft.
Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces
Episode number: 10
Overview: This special looked at foreign items, including ice, a chemical oxygen generator, and a bomb as the cause.
Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes
Episode number: 11
Overview: This special looked at disasters where multiple investigations don't agree on the cause of these accidents.
Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions
Episode number: 12
Overview: This special looked at how pilots' deviation from cockpit duties lead to crashes.
Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board
Episode number: 13
Overview: This special looked at disasters caused by fires, either on the ground or in the air.
Special Report Season 19 : Headline News
Episode number: 14
Overview: Three devastating crashes make front page news and the media frenzy puts intense pressure to uncover the true cause of these deadly disasters.
Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors
Episode number: 15
Overview: While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.
Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course
Episode number: 16
Overview: Investigators comb through the wreckage of three separate midair collisions in a race to prevent another fatal impact.
Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out
Episode number: 17
Overview: When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.
Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble
Episode number: 18
Overview: Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.
Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads
Episode number: 19
Overview: Three planes fatally out of balance highlight to investigators a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet seemingly not stopping.
Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight
Episode number: 20
Overview: If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy as evidenced in these three crashes.
Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion
Episode number: 21
Overview: Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents. Even the most experienced pilots are susceptible to its subtle yet deadly effects.
Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence
Episode number: 22
Overview: Radio silence between pilots and controllers can mean many different things, but in these stories, the physical evidence reveals the truth.
Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws
Episode number: 23
Overview: Drawing the attention of the entire world, three fatal design flaws put air crash investigators in a storm of controversy.
Special Report Season 20: Courage in the Cockpit
Episode number: 24
Overview: Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 32.
Special Report Season 20: Death From Above
Episode number: 25
Overview: Mid-air tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.
Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board
Episode number: 26
Overview: Revisit three crashes involving high-profile passengers and the pressurized investigations into the causes that followed.
Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security
Episode number: 27
Overview: These are three horrific air disasters that provoked fundamental changes to airport security and the measures we follow across the world today.
Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact
Episode number: 28
Overview: Follow three horrifying crashes that revealed high-tech blind spots in the technology preventing aircraft from ploughing into mountains.
Special Report Season 20: Survivors
Episode number: 29
Overview: From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.
Special Report Season 20: Instrument Confusion
Episode number: 30
Overview: Follow three mid-air tragedies that rained terror on those below when they happened over crowded areas.
Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment
Episode number: 31
Overview: When aviation decisions are made in the heat of the moment, even minor issues can have fatal consequences.
Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes
Episode number: 32
Overview: A trio of crashes reveal that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.
Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies
Episode number: 33
Overview: Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during take-off can have disastrous consequences.
Special Report: Dead of Night
Episode number: 34
Overview: Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
Special Report: Engine Gone
Episode number: 35
Overview: Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
Special Report: Lethal Choices
Episode number: 36
Overview: Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
Special Report: Risky Runways
Episode number: 37
Overview: In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.
Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong
Episode number: 38
Overview: Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.
Special Report: Frozen Wings
Episode number: 39
Overview: Three planes are brought down by ice, and it's up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.
Special Report: Runway Collisions
Episode number: 40
Overview: Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?
Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown
Episode number: 41
Overview: Illustrating the deadly consequences of a mismatched crew, three flights end in tragedy, leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.
Special Report: Splash Down
Episode number: 42
Overview: Three last-resort water landings-all handled differently-yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Special Report: Northern Extremes
Episode number: 43
Overview: Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
Special Report: War Zone
Episode number: 44
Overview: Misidentification and accidental bombing of enemy territory are among the many risks pilots face in military zones around the world.
Special Report: Time Critical
Episode number: 45
Overview: As they rush to finish, some pilots overlook important steps and danger signs and make decisions that threaten the lives of the passengers as well as their own. A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 crashes into the ground minutes after landing at Amsterdam Airport. A Continental Airlines flight crew ignores normal procedures in Denver amid heavy snow and ice and as the pilots of Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 try to resolve a minor landing gear failure, they hit the ground and their approach ends tragically wrong in the New Zealand slopes.
Special Report: Ticking Time Bomb
Episode number: 46
Special Report: Impossible Landings
Episode number: 47
Overview: The pilots avoid three dangerous situations where there was no room for error and manage to land damaged planes. A female passenger is sucked out the window of Southwest Flight 1380. The cabin of a Boeing 737 explodes over Hawaii and Air Canada Flight 797 catches fire 90 seconds after an incredible crash landing.
Special Report: Deadly Data
Episode number: 48
Special Report: Trained to Fail
Episode number: 49
Special Report: Accidents in the Air
Episode number: 50
Overview: This special looked at mid-air collisions caused by either pilot error or meltdowns within air traffic control.
Special Report: Dangerous Winds
Episode number: 51
Overview: Approaching Charlotte, US Air Flight 1016 crashes violently into the ground after a gust of wind. A 737 drops like a rock while flying blind over Perú half a mile from the jungle, and a scientific expedition into the eye of Hurricane Hugo goes terribly wrong.
Special Report: Sabotage
Episode number: 52
Overview: Three flights are sabotaged. When hijackers break into the cockpit of an Ethiopian plane, the captain manages to make a life-threatening sea landing. Scientists debate a pair of conflicting theories when an Italian plane explodes in the sky and Namibian investigators come to a chilling conclusion after examining clues found in the wreckage of LAM Mozambique Flight 470.